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High travel insurance amendment quote for broken bone
Hi, I hope someone can offer me advice. I took out family annual travel insurance in May, with a holiday booked for August. I broke my wrist 4 weeks ago. When I first called the insurer they said I'd have to pay an additional £124 because the injury was less that 3 weeks old at the time I made the call. I said I'd call…
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Travel insurance cover
Have just booked holiday for may 2025 and so doing insurance quotes however little confused as few of them when look into more info say the following "The Table Summarises what scenarios are and aren't covered REMEMBER - you will not be covered for anything that occurs before your cover start date" But when filling in the…
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EasyJet flight home cancelled! Nightmare - Can we claim?
I'm reaching out for some advice and support regarding a distressing experience we had with EasyJet. Our flight from Italy was cancelled with just three hours' notice, late at night. There were many upset passengers, and EasyJet provided no assistance whatsoever. This is the first time ever this has happened luckliy to me,…
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Travelling to USA and getting a prepaid card
One big reason why we're looking for a prepaid card is simply so we can put money on there that we have and use abroad. The fear in having a debit card is that our spend will rack up moreso. But which card would you recommend? TUI told us about a prepaid card and they all seem to do pretty much the same thing. Is that…
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Declaring illness fully recovered for travel insurance
Wondering if anyone can tell me if they know if whooping cough should be declared as a previous illness for travel insurance? I had it in April this year (public health were notified) and l am planning a European city break in November this year. I am fully recovered from the cough with no apparent long term symptoms but l…
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Travel insurance when close member of the family is ill
We’ve booked a holiday and now need to get travel insurance, but I’m looking for the company that are best at covering if a close member of the family dies just before or during the holiday. My mother-in-law has dementia and is starting to deteriorate, but she has also had dementia years and I feel that we can’t put our…
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Mother suddenly passed away
Hi. My Mother without no real notice passed away from cancer earlier this week. She showed no visible signs until about 48 hrs before her passing, although the docs said she must have known as there would have been. Anyway. I have a flight booked to Cyprus with BA in September. Needless to say I wont be going. Do BA have a…
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New ‘diagnosis’
I have recently undergone tests for an as yet undiagnosed ailment. This has been disclosed on my travel Insurance. Also disclosed was undiagnosed back pain but thought to be general arthritic aging I do not get on well with my GP practice as everything is put down to type 2 Diabetes and age - I am 78. I do not have much in…
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10 day trip to Europe
My wife and I want to do a 10 day trip to Europe My wife wants to visits Vienna and lausenne and obviously stops on the way and way back. We want to drive but we also don't want to be driving all the time so we thought maybe we could go by train or a mix of train and car Are there good forums where we can get honest advice…
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TUI Package Child Holiday Prices
I priced up a all inclusive holiday for 2A and 2C aged 9 and 13. On the quote I incorrectly put my eldest at 12, but when I changed this to 13 the holiday went up by £300. Also we wanted to select a different flight and the upgrade price (when her age was incorrect) was 48p each, but when this was corrected it increased…
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Using Virgin Money Debit Card in Shops and Restaurants in the Canaries
We bank with Virgin Money, which is supposedly one of the best Debit Cards to use abroad with no fees for making purchases, so we are considering using the card whilst over in the Canary Islands later this month. We should only get charged the ATM fee if we want to make a cash withdrawal and choose local currency on the…
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Construction noise by Villa rental - refund?
Recently spent a week in a rental villa which was spoilt by construction happening immediately next door. Booked direct with villa owner who states I should have reported at the time and not wait until after my return. Says I didn’t give them opportunity to resolve eg by moving to alternative accommodation. I have video…
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Insurance coverage
Hi Good Morning, actually me and my wife traveling to Mount Kailash which is in Tibet, China vie Nepal, I have Halifax account travel insurance cover, we will have to travel quite high altitude area, do you think we have to buy another insurance cover? I can not see that mention of traveling to high altitude area.
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Travel Delay on Insure and Go Policies (and AllClear ones)
https://res.cloudinary.com/dttwa61aq/image/upload/v1702462901/igo/policy-wording/2024/InsureandGo_Silver_and_Gold_Policy_Wording_1223.pdf Page 32 Travel Delay Perhaps it is just worth mentioning this: I have just noticed that you cannot claim for anything at all under this section, unless the Delay is at least 24 hours.…
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family annual travel insurance with 18 year old
I wanted to renew by family annual travel insurance but as one of my sons has turned 18 I can't do it automatically so I wondered about actually getting him his own policy in any case. Is there any disadvantage to us travelling as a family of 4 with 3 of us (parents and one 17yo) on one policy and the 18yo on his own…
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Waiting 6 months for booking.com refund on cancelled flight
I booked my flight through booking.com. The flight was cancelled. Booking.com said they would get me my refund. It’s been six months now and I haven’t been refunded. Every time I ask they give me the same response saying it’s been escalated to the concerns team. I started emailing daily and now I’ve finally got a different…
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Longer trip insurance
Anyone know any good insurers who will cover a trip of 44 days? Most only do 28 or 36 max.
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Unable to carry out visa check so missed flight (in chaos on Friday)
Posting for my son and wife - they booked a 3 day trip to Rome flying on Ryanair on Friday. Wife has a spouse visa that has to be checked at the airport before a boarding pass is issued but of course in the queue and chaos on Friday morning at Stansted this was hopeless and the flight left without them. My son had a…
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Issue with Hostel Cancellation Charges
I booked a Hostel in Amsterdam several months ago, for a large group. The cost came to around EUR 2k for two nights. The room rate was 'non-refundable'. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I had to enquire about cancelling the booking around four weeks before we were due to travel. Given I had booked a non-refundable room, I…
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Flight refund when event you are flying to is cancelled
Hi I have tried to find an answer to this question but the result keep bring up flight cancellations. I booked a standard basic flight with Iberia to Madrid. The event (3 hours northish from Madrid) for which I bought the flights, and was my sole purpose for travelling has been cancelled, and so I have no use for the…
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